Inside STAT: Warren’s health care evolution earns friends on the left, foes back home

ELIZABETH WARREN SPEAKS TO VOTERS AT EXETER HIGH SCHOOL. (JESSICA RINALDI/THE BOSTON GLOBE)

In her bid for president, Elizabeth Warren has evolved from a Massachusetts senator sympathetic to her home state’s health care interests to a more national figure interested in broad, sweeping changes that go beyond what affects the Bay State. She helped write the landmark 21st Century Cures Act, which promised $5 billion in biomedical research, but when the time came to vote, hers was a resounding “no” because “Big Pharma got its handout,” she declared. Not only has she angered Massachusetts health industry leaders, but as a relatively late arrival to the progressive “Medicare for All” camp, fellow liberals are also questioning her bonafides. Read more from STAT’s Lev Facher and the Boston Globe’s Liz Goodwin.